Woman Gets Prison In Spaghetti Sauce Stickup

MOUNT CLEMENS (WWJ/AP) – A woman who used cans of spaghetti sauce to simulate a bomb when she robbed a Macomb County bank has been sentenced at least four years in prison.

Ophelia A. Neal was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty last month to bank robbery and explosives charges. She faced up to life in prison, but a judge ordered Neal serve up to 10 years behind bars.

Neal, a 53-year-old parole absconder, robbed a Fifth Third Bank branch on April 6 in Clinton Township.